Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-11-16
The Oldest and Best Insur-
ance Companies represented
by L. FL. Wellington.
THE USE OF TOBACCO.
A Marked Change Taking Place III the
Taste of the Public-Less Chewing.

A Marked Change Taking Place In the
Taste of the Public-Less Chewing.
Every tobacconist recognizes the great
change that is taking place in what may
be called in a rather new sense the public
taste. Any average tobacconist, whose
trade is not chiefly among sailors and
truckmen, will tell you he does not sell
one-half as much chewing tobacco as he
did ten years ago, and not one-third as
much as he did twenty years ago. Very
likely he will be unable to guess why 1t is,
but he can't deny the fact. asked one
of them about it the other day. He said:
''The change is due to a variety OF
causes. 1t is q great deal more apparent
here in the east than in the west, and
south, but it is going on all over the
country. One thing is undoubtedly the
strength of public opinion that it is an
uncleanly habit. It is hard for man
who chews to keep evidences Of it from
his clothes. That fact makes 1t inevitable
that the habit shou1N go down before the
increasing attention to dress, that is o
feature of modern life. Then great
many refined and well intentioned persons
have waged war against il for years. 1t
was inevitable that some effect should
follow their crusade.
"But the principal causes are right
here: There is great deal more dyspep-
STA and stomach trouble in the country
now than there used to be. And no per-
son can chew tobacco who has a weak
stomach. James Parton says in his
famous pamphlet against rum and to-
bacco that the stomach will hold out
against the weed longer than the
lungs. James does not smoke or chew,
and therefore he doesn't know. Common
experience shows that he is wrong, and
doctors support the verdict of common
experience. The action Of the tobacco
Juice. which trickles down the chewer's
throat, is to paralyze the stomach. 1t
will do that long before smoke will have
any perceptible effect upon an ordinary
pair of lungs.
stThen the cigarette has done great
deal to put an end to the habit of chew
ing tobacco. The growth of the cigarette
practice in this country is as they say OF
western towns, phenomenal. The con-
sumption of cigarettes has doubled many
times over in the last fifteen years. About
seven out of every ten boys who are grow
ing up now smoke cigarettes. And after
boy has smoked cigarettes a few years
he not only has no taste for tobacco in
any other form, but he has no constitu-
ton left to stand chewing tobacco. 1t Is
curious how boys will take to cigarettes.
believe it is very largely because of the
fuss that is made about them. It4has got
to be the common opinion that cigarette
smoking is the most injurious practice
known. That is just why boys adopt 1t.
1t makes them an object of awful interest
to other boys and to girls. It is soothing
10 n IS oh frl of
pie have marked him out as one who is
rushing with frightful temerity to early
destruction. Whether that is the cause
of it or not, it is perfectly certain that
more and more cigarettes are being sold
every year and less and less chewing to-
bacco. New York Commercial Adver-
TIGER